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The Collection of Martin Copley, AM — Mossgreen Auctions (No longer trading)

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Auction House:Mossgreen Auctions (No longer trading)Number of lots recorded:135
Sale Title:The Collection of Martin Copley, AMLots with images:135
Auction Location:MelbournePrices available:126
Date:22-Oct-2017
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Spencer, Baldwin and Gillen, F.J. The Arunta. A study of a Stone Age people. London, 1927. Two volumes octavo, with a folding map and numerous plates, some coloured, original olive cloth. A fine set in the primary binding.
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Spencer, Baldwin and Gillen, F.J. The northern tribes of central Australia. London, 1904. Thick octavo, with folding map, 2 folding coloured plates, 3 folding tables and numerous illustrations, original gilt-decorated cloth (wearing). With, Spencer and Gillen, The native tribes of central Australia, second edition, 1938, Spencer, Wanderings in wild Australia, 1928, two volumes (cloth a little bumped), Spencer, Spencer's last journey, being the journal of an expedition to Tierra del Fuego, 1931, and Spencer…
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Stokes, John Lort Stokes. Discoveries in Australia, with an account of the coasts and rivers explored and surveyed during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. London, 1846. Two volumes thick octavo, with 8 folding engraved maps (7 in endpocket) and 26 engraved or lithographed plates, errata leaf, original cloth (spines faded and slightly worn, hinges neatly strengthened). A little foxing, some leaves carelessly opened in the first volume. Lengthy and important series of…
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Strehlow, T.G.H. Songs of central Australia. [Sydney, 1971]. Quarto, with coloured frontispiece and endpocket map, corrigenda slip, original cloth in dustjacket (slightly frayed)., Very scarce. 'The author has set out on a task never before attempted in Australia: the analysis of Aboriginal songs as fully developed oral literature and their evauation as authoritative documents of Aboriginal religion'--publisher's note.
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Sweet, Robert. Flora Australasica, or, a selection of handsome or curious plants, natives of New Holland and the South Sea Islands, containing figures and descriptions of some of the choicest species most proper for the conservatory or greenhouse. London, 1827-28. Octavo, with 56 hand-coloured engraved plates, modern half straight-grained green morocco (slightly scuffed), spine with gilt ornaments, top edge gilt. A few spots but the plates generally clean. The first Australian horticultural book: a very…
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Tasman, Abel Janszoon. Journal of his discovery of Van Diemen's Land and New Zealand in 1642. With documents relating to his exploration of Australia in 1644... To which are added, Life and labours of Abel Janzsoon Tasman, by J.E. Heeres. Amsterdam, 1898. Folio, photolithographic facsmile of the original illustrated manuscript, a few illustrations hand-coloured, and English translation, with 4 folding facsmiles of early charts and folding isogonic map, errata slip, original gilt-ruled vellum (back board…
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[Thevenot, Melchisedec, editor]. Relations de divers voyages curieux. Paris, 1672. Four volumes folio, with 11 folding or double-page maps, 23 plates, some double-page, 5 coloured, and numerous text illustrations, some full-page, contemporary calf, the sides with dense penwork decoration, spines gilt in compartments (some joints and headcaps skilfully repaired, a little surface erosion of the leather from the dye used in the decoration). A fine, clean set, with the Nova Hollandia map, the first map of…
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Tietkens, W.H. Journal of Mr. W.H. Tietkens' Central Australian Exploring Expedition. Adelaide, 1890. South Australian Parliamentary Paper, small folio, drop title, pp.32 with folding map and folding coloured geological section plan, quarter calf., The first printing of the leader's account of an expediton over five months in 1889.
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Valentyn, Francois. Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indien. Amsterdam and Dordrecht, 1724-26. Five volumes small folio, with 265 engraved maps and plates (and duplicate of one map) including a folding portrait of the author, an allegorical title and engraved dedication leaf with vignette, numerous text illustrations (two full-page) and 9 folding tables, printed double column, early nineteenth-century diced calf (rubbed, one joint cracking). Short sealed tear in some maps, a little marginal worming in the third and fifth…
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Vancouver, Captain George. A voyage of discovery to the northern Pacific Ocean and round the world... performed in the years 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795 in the Discovery, sloop of war, and armed tender, Chatham. London, 1798. Three volumes quarto, with 18 plates or charts, 2 leaves of errata at the end of the third volume, bound without half-titles, and large folio atlas with 10 folding charts and 6 plates of coastal profiles, the text volumes in contemporary diced calf skilfully rebacked in…
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Vigors, N.A. and Horsfield, Thomas. A description of the Australian birds in the collection of the Linnean Society, with an attempt at arranging them according to their natural affinities. [London, 1827]. Quarto, pp. 170-331, binder's cloth., Part 1, all published, extracted from the Transactions of the Linnean Society.Whittell, p.734: 'An important article in which the birds collected by George Caley and Robert Brown are named and described'.
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Vrolik, W. Ontleedkundige nasporingen omtrent Dendrolagus inustus. Amsterdam, 1857. Quarto, pp. [ii], 36, with 6 lithographed plates (4 folding), original printed wrappers (a little soiled, backstrip deficient)., Rare monograph on the grizzled tree-kangaroo, offprinted from the Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen.
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Wallace, Alfred Russel. The Malay Archipelago. The land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise. A narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature. London, 1869. Two volumes octavo, with 2 folding coloured maps, 8 plates, and text maps and illustrations, original gilt-decorated cloth (hinges of the first volume slightly weakened). First edition, a very good, clean set of one of the finest scientific travel books ever written, an account of eight years observing and collecting in every important…
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Warburton, Colonel Peter Egerton. Journey across the western interior of Australia. London, 1875. Octavo, with folding coloured route map (with slight marginal repairs) and 9 wood-engraved plates, original gilt-pictorial cloth., First edition of this account of an epic journey: after leaving Alice Springs in April, 1873, and surviving only by eating their camels, the exhausted party reached De Grey Station, east of Port Hedland in Western Australia, having escaped the Great Sandy Desert to become the first…
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Waterhouse, G.R. Marsupialia, or pouched animals. Edinburgh, 1841. Small octavo, with portrait, additional title with coloured vignette, and 34 hand-coloured plates, original cloth., The Naturalist's Library, Mammalia, Vol XI. With another copy and 3 other volumes on mammals from this famous series (cloth defective on two of them).
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Waterhouse, G.R. A natural history of the Mammalia. Vol 1, containing the order Marsupiata, or pouched animals, Vol. II, containing the order Rodentia, or gnawing Mammalia. London, 1846-48. Two volumes thick octavo, with 45 engraved plates (22 hand-coloured), folding table and text figures, the first volume in contemporary quarter red morocco, the second in original gilt-decorated cloth. Some foxing on the uncoloured plates. All published, the scarce coloured issue.
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[Wells, L. A.]. Journal of the Calvert Scientific Exploring Expedition, 1896-7. Equipped at the request and expense of Albert F. Calvert, Esq., F.R.G.S., London, for the purpose of exploring the remaining blanks of Australia. Perth, 1902. Western Australian Parliamentary Paper, small folio, p. 62, [ii], with large folding map and text illustrations, quarter calf., The first publication of the leader's complete journal of this tragic Western Australian expedition. Setting out from Mullewa, north of…
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[Wells L. A.]. Journal of the Calvert Scientific Exploring Expedition, 1896-7. Another copy, with Forrest, Alexander, North-west exploration: Progress report of expedition from De Grey River to Beagle Bay, Perth, 1879, small folio, pp. 6 and folding map, the two Papers together in binder's cloth. Edges of a few leaves reinforced with tape.
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White, John. Journal of a voyage to New South Wales. London, 1790. Quarto, engraved title with vignette and 65 hand-coloured plates of natural history subjects on wove paper. With, Gilbert, Thomas. Voyage from New South Wales to Canton in the year 1788. London, 1789. Quarto, engraved title with vignette and 4 large folding plates of coastal views, with the half -title. Two volumes in one, the four advertisement leaves (two inserted and two integral) bound at the end, contemporary speckled calf well…
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Winnecke, Charles. Herbert River and north-eastern exploring expedition. Plan and report of Mr. Winnecke's exploration from Alice Springs to the Herbert River and Tennant's Creek. Adelaide, 1882. South Australian Parliamentary Paper, small folio, drop title, pp. 34 and large folding linen-backed map, quarter calf., Very scarce: the only printing of WInnecke's report on his extensive Northern Territory explorations of 1880.
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Zoological and Acclimatisation Society of Victoria. Proceedings. Melbourne, 1872-75. Volumes 1-4, octavo, with 7 plates, and text figures, original cloth., Including, in the second volume, J. J. Bleasdale's long paper on colonial wines. A fifth volume, published in wrappers in 1878, is rarely found.
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Artist Unknown, Illuminated Musical Manuscript, engraving, 42 x 28.5 cm
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LUCY ANN SHAW, Solomon's Temple, embroidery - sampler, inscribed centre: LUCY ann Shaws work done 1845, Solomans Tempel (sic), 64.5 x 62.5 cm
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European School, The Recital, circa 1785, embroidery, 27 x 37 cm
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Chinese School, Figures in Classical Landscape, watercolour on silk, inscribed upper left, 28.5 x 44 cm
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Chinese School, Landscape, watercolour on silk, signed and inscribed upper left, 29 x 44 cm
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A parquetry inlay mahogany square table pianoforte made by John Broadwood & Son., 1792, 86 cm high, 159 cm wide, 54 cm wide
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A William IV rosewood music stand, 140 cm high
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A marble and ormolu clock garniture, French, 19th century, 35 cm high
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A Chinese elm altar table, 19th century, 85 cm high, 200 cm wide, 498 cm deep
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A Louis XVI marble top kingwood and satinwood parquetry inlaid secretaire abattant, opening to reveal an arrangement of compartments and writing surface, 144 cm high, 96 cm wide, 39 cm deep
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A green leather inset mahogany partners desk, English, 19th century, with two extending slides to either end, 77 cm high, 142 cm wide, 78 cm deep
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A wire front mahogany library bookcase, English, 19th century, 245 cm high, 70 cm wide, 37 cm deep
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Veramin rug, north-central Iran, late 19th/early 20th century, 350 x 205 cm
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Qashqai tribal rug, Fars Province, southern Iran, early-20th century, 228 x 177 cm
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